Example sentences of "and [vb past] it to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 2 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 3 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 4 | I finished my fourpenny pint , pushed through the pearly kings and queens , and made it to the door . |
| 5 | He survived Auschwitz and made it to the US , but died the year after I was born |
| 6 | The policeman noted the registration number of the vehicle and passed it to the Kos police dealing with the investigation . |
| 7 | Harriet , who had been watching the meter , pulled a note out of her bag and passed it to the driver . |
| 8 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 9 | The upkeep of Hogarth House became neglected and it was severely damaged by enemy bombing , during the second world war , but a well known Chiswick resident who lived in the fine mansion of Grove House , Col. R. W. Shipway , J.P. , made a generous gift to the Middlesex County Council who restored the house and reopened it to the public as a museum in 1951 , transferring it to the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965 . |
| 10 | Mary of Guise and the highly influential French ambassador in Scotland , Henri , sieur d'Oysel , collected an army of French and Scottish troops , and got it to the borders . |
| 11 | The other Rex Mundi , because , of course , it could be no other , rent hair from his head and flung it to the floor where it exploded in small sulphurous puffs of smoke . |
| 12 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 13 | He struck the match and applied it to the heads of all the other matches in the partly open box . |
| 14 | Gina Newman has uprooted her inimitable Something Wild boutique from Swiss Cottage , and transplanted it to the more accessible environs of Covent Garden . |
| 15 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 16 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 17 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 18 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 19 | ‘ The two of you rolled it up planks on to the truck , roped it down and drove it to the site ; is that right ? ’ |
| 20 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 21 | About one year ago I had a clear-out and consigned it to the bin so I can not help with the actual item but I still have copy of the magazine if it is needed . |
| 22 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 23 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 24 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 25 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 26 | In 1664 he disparked Clarendon Park , the last remnant of the royal forests in Wiltshire , and granted it to the Duke of Albermarle . |
| 27 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 28 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |
| 29 | She looked at herself , practised an attitude , widening her eyes and sucking in her cheeks , then another , chin up , head to one side , Madonna-like in pious ecstasy , then shaking her head to dismiss the bridal vision she had attempted , plucked the lace mat from her hair and added it to the pile with the others she had finished . |
| 30 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |